Dion Chryso'stomus

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 828–83234

Dion Chryso'stomus ('the golden-mouthed'), an eminent Greek rhetorician, surnamed Cocceianus from his intimate friendship with the Emperor Cocceius Nerva, was born at Prusa, in Bithynia, about 50 A.D. His father, Pasicrates, paid great attention to his education, which was perfected by travel. He came to Rome under Vespasian, but had afterwards to leave the city, having had the misfortune to excite the suspicion of Domitian. He next visited—in the disguise of a beggar, and on advice of the Delphic oracle—Thrace, Mysia, and Scythia. On the accession of Nerva (96 A.D.) he returned to Rome, and lived in great honour under that ruler and his successor Trajan till his own death, about 117 A.D. As many as eighty of his orations are still extant, with fragments of fifteen others. They are, however, treatises rather than orations proper, discussing questions in politics, morals, and philosophy. These are well reasoned, clear, and eloquent, and are written in pure Attic Greek. Dion Chrysostomus was 'the first writer after Tiberius,' says Niebuhr, 'that greatly contributed towards the revival of Greek literature.' Good editions are by Reiske (1784), Emper (1844), Dindorf (1857), and Von Arnim (1893-95).

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